Columbus playwright enjoying residency in France

(Caption: The artists' building Moulin A Nef in Auvillar, France, where Columbus writer Scott Tobin is in residence working on his plays. Credit: Scott Tobin)

Columbus playwright Scott Tobin is enjoying a playwriting residency in France. While at the VCCA Moulin A Nef Artists' Residence through October 29 in Auvillar, France, Tobin is working on three of his plays.

(Caption: The artists' building Moulin A Nef in Auvillar, France, where Columbus writer Scott Tobin is in residence working on his plays. Credit: Scott Tobin)

Columbus playwright Scott Tobin is enjoying a playwriting residency in France. While at the VCCA Moulin A Nef Artists' Residence through October 29 in Auvillar, France, Tobin is working on three of his plays.

(Caption: The monument of La Halle aux Grains in Auvillar, France, where Columbus writer Scott Tobin is in residence working on his plays. Credit: Scott Tobin)

Tobin, who has written and directed for MadLab Theatre, On the Verge and other central Ohio troupes, is working on three full-length plays: Her Town Too, Bunker and Marissa, a play that he says he was inspired to write by seeing French film director Eric Rohmer's My Night At Maud's.

Here is how Tobin describes each of his plays-in-progress: BUNKER: A man about to lose his house bunkers down in his basement while the outside world tries to come crashing in. MARISSA: A man has a moral struggle over marrying an atheist woman he loves or marrying a catholic woman he hardly knows. HER TOWN TOO: A man suffers a tragic loss in his family and visits his individual loved ones while contemplating revenge. Also planned during the residency was a public reading there of some of his past plays - in French. Tobin is in residence with two other writers. Tobin, who applied for the residency after attending the Virginia Center for Creative Artists last year, has been doing the residency in company with Ellen Dreyer and Heather Bryant. Dreyer is a prolific American author who has written over 30 books including The Glow Stone and Speechless in New York. Bryant, the Spring 2010 Emerging Writer-in-Residence at Randolph College, has won the 2009 Southeast Review Narrative Nonfiction Contest. (Caption: Fellowship writers in France: Ellen Dreyer, left to right, Scott Tobin, and Heather Bryant, Photo Credit Marcie Maynard)

Among Tobin's recently produced plays: The Final Scene of a Ninety-Six-Hour-Long Play, part of MadLab's 11th annual Theatre Roulette festival this year; and High School Drama, a full-length work staged by On the Verge.

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